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Monday, January 05, 2009

My inability to reply to emails ( or personally reply to blog comments ) is only overtaken by my inability to make or return phonecalls. Terrible.

So i've finally made the big jump to stop the auto-forwarding of every comment to my email box. There's almost 400 in there since my last catch-up/cull, and it's getting beyond a joke.By the time I reply on your thoughtful comment, it was 5months ago already, and you've totally forgotten about it.From now on, I will reply in my own comments, en masse, and will continue my practice of always visiting a blogger who comments.I like doing that, and it seems to be something I am capable of. Done.

We've also resolved to get the young boy out of the marital bed. He's almost ONE ( where did that time go ? ), and is very much a mumma's boy. So we've been trialling out the cot for naps ( hates it ), and probably gets a good two hours in it at night before we bring him in.Pretty pathetic, but it is a big change for him ... plus i'm planning of cutting off his milk supply sometime in the near future too, so babysteps, babysteps..

Speaking of milk supply - new bras.Pristine white without snaps and flaps for breastfeeding.Am refusing to buy new maternity ones and the ones I own now are extremely sad and gah! Their ugliness is my motivation.

Taking a photo a day*for January. So far so good.I'd love to make it a 365 if I can, but a month is good to start. You might remember my other aborted attempt at a month of photos on the blog ( ha! ). But that was different as I banned WORDS on the blog. Rules, schmules, you can't shut me up if I want to talk, bully-boy.

2009 is a big year for me - i've got a lot on the go, and already it's proving challenging with the 2 young boys underfoot.It's going to be a good year though, oh yes indeedy. I refuse to have it any other way ;)

Hope yours will be just as fine.

* if you can't see them, it's because they're kiddy-pics and I keep them on 'family&friends' only.Flickrmail me if you want to get past the doorbitch.

All the best for the new year H&B. I hear ya on the email and telephone thing - for me, I think it's because I prefer the face-to-face meeting - but we can't always have that can we and also a rather "strange" leaning for a blogger as well ;-)

I've never thought you slack with your emailing, You put me to shame I reckon. I don't think all comments need a response, I only reply to those that do and otherwise just go visit people.

Good luck with the cot, I always feared the mover (from bassinet to big cot) and both times my bubsies smiled up at me in the new surrounds then slept happily the whole night through. Don't take that as a brag, mine are good sleepers but terrible eaters, late toilet trainers etc.

Don't worry about replying to the comments - I don't expect a response. I prefer it if you just pop by mine every now and then. I LOVE the photo of the little guy - is that a sign of things to come?? Good luck with the bed thing. I'm still having to sit on the bed while miss 3 goes off to sleep or she screams the house down.

yeah, I never got the always replying to comments email thingy. Once in a while is nice but then I never know when to end the conversation.... a bit like the messaging that goes on at work that gets a bit endless when really one should be doing SOME WORK.

Okay. So does that mean I can diss you in the comments and you won't send me a shitty email?Good luck with the bed and bra thing.I cried in DJ's change room when I bought my first post breastfeeding bra.

Guess I'd better not send off what I'd intended to send off almost a year ago. How embarrassing.

Good luck on your campaign to get the bub out of the marital bed. Can I just say what a fabulous idea it is. And when you succeed, could you please tell me your secret so I can finally shunt Master Almost Five into his own bed???

That's what I do too, usually return visit blogs of people who comment, and answer questions in my own comments section if someone asks a question and I don't have their email address. I don't usually get many comments anyway though.

Same as Tamera -- skipped the maternity bras the last time but probably not something Trinny and Suzanna would recommend. Not the most comfortable but dad gum it I hate those too. Luke was really hard to get out of the parental bed -- 17 months. But I got tougher and tougher with each one. Liam didn't stand a chance, poor little guy.Who is almost one year! What DID happen?? Nuts, I say.

Yay! Grown up bras are a good sign ... I have finally gotten rid of all of my stretched, stained, ugly maternity bras and even though I'll miss not having anyone else to breastfeed, I won't miss those horrid contraptions.A photo a day is a good resolution. Good luck and Happy new year :)

Thanks for stopping by my blog. And taking time to comment. Twice!Good luck with all the NY resolutions. Luckily I have another 49 weeks before I should consider shifting the babe from the 'grown-up's bed'... says me after I was determined that the babe would be in her own room. So not happening.